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		Locke1689 on Sept 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database The lessons are pretty much the same as the ones functional programming have been trying to teach us for years: immutability and caching. Beyond that I would rather not elaborate for reasons of confidentiality.

eternalban on Sept 16, 2012 [–]

Value addressing. MVCC.

sedachv on Sept 16, 2012 | [–]

What is "value addressing"? That's the first time I've seen that term and google doesn't bring anything relevant up.

arnarbi on Sept 16, 2012 | | [–]

This is a wild guess, but I guess it might be a synonym for content addressing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage#Con...

eternalban on Sept 16, 2012 | | [–]

+1. Neologism of an autodidact. IMHO it is more correct, regardless.

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